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since 2026: Associate Professor at the State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology (NIGPAS), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

2023–2025: Postdoc at LMU Munich, funded by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

Educational background

2017–2022: Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology (NIGPAS), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); PhD in Palaeontology and Stratigraphy
2013–2017: China University of Geosciences (Beijing); BSc in Natural Resources Prospecting Engineering

Research Interests
Fossil insects and terrestrial biotas

Awards and honours
2023: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation research fellowship for Postdocs
2021: UCAS-BHP Billiton Scholarship by University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
2021: Chu-Li-Yuet-Wah Prize for Outstanding Doctoral by University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

Publications
 

2025
Fu Y., Dong C., Fabrikant D., Cai C., Haug C., Haug J., Huang D.* (2025) Unique leaf mimicry in Jurassic insects. Geology, 53: 929–933.
Fu Y., Liu Y., Zhou W., Haug C., Haug J., Song X., Cai C., Huang D.* (2025) Leaf-mimicking in Permian cicadomorphan insects. BMC Biology, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-025-02487-2
Fu Y., Liao H., Cai C., Li J., Lian X., Gao J., Shen Y., Huang D.* (2025) New fossil material of clam shrimps and insects from the Lower Cretaceous Duoni Formation of eastern Tibet. Mesozoic, 2(4): 368–374.
Fu Y.*, Boderau M., Fabrikant D., Nel A. (2025) New data on Cicadomorpha from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota of China. Journal of Insect Biodiversity, 77(1): 71–84.
Boderau M., Nel A., Fu Y.* (2025) A new Lapicixius planthopper species (Fulgoromorpha: Lalacidae) from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of northeastern China. Journal of Insect Biodiversity, 77(1): 85–90.
Boderau M., Fu Y., Jiang H., Guan S., Peng A., Nel A., Jouault C.* (2025) Bayesian modelling of the fossil record enlightens the evolutionary history of Hemiptera. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 292: 20251133.
Cai C., Johnson K., Fu Y., Gustafsson D., Azar D., Su Y., Xuan Q., Engel M., Huang D.* (2025) Cretaceous chewing louse eggs of enantiornithine birds. National Science Review: nwae479.
Haug C., Melzer R., Braig F., Linhart S., Briggs D., Caballero A., Fu Y., Haug G., Hörnig M., Haug J. (2025) Cretaceous lacewing larvae with binocular vision demonstrate the convergent evolution of sophisticated simple eyes. Insect Science, https://doi.org/10.1111/1744-7917.13509
Boderau M.*, Peng A., Hoffeins C., Fu Y., Nel A. (2025) The first occurrence of water boatmen family Micronectidae (Nepomorpha: Corixoidea) in Eocene Baltic amber. Zootaxa, 5739(1): 75–82.
Wang Y., Nel A., Cai C., Fu Y., Liu Q., Zeng G., Lian X., Huang D.* (2025) New insect assemblage from the early Oligocene in Ningming Basin, Guangxi, China. Zootaxa, 5739(1): 21–35.
Wang B., Wang Z.*, Su Y., Liu Y., Tian X., Shi Y., Chu D., Fu Y., Cai C., Tian L. (2025) A new Triassic insect fossil assemblage from the southern Ordos Basin, Shaanxi, North China. Palaeoentomology, 8(6): 661–667.

2024
Fu Y., Cai C., Chen P., Xuan Q., Myint T., Huang D.* (2024) Group mating in Cretaceous water striders. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 291: 20232546.
Fu Y.*, Nel, A., Boderau M. (2024) A new early representative genus of Hylicellidae from the Triassic of China (Hemiptera, Cicadomorpha). Journal of Insect Biodiversity, 60(1): 9–15.
Hakim M., Fu Y.* (2024) A new record of Scytinopteridae from the Middle Triassic Tongchuan entomofauna of China. Journal of Insect Biodiversity, 60(1): 55–63.
Fabrikant D., Huang D., Nel, A., Fu Y.* (2024) New Cicadomorpha from the Triassic of China raise questions on the systematics of Archijassidae. Journal of Insect Biodiversity, 60(1): 75–82.
Fabrikant D., Huang D., Fu Y.* (2024) Three new species of Multistria from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Mimarachnidae). Mesozoic, 1(4): 483–492.
Fabrikant D., Huang D., Haug C., Haug J., Fu Y.* (2024) Morphological features of the Upper Cretaceous planthopper Mimaeurypterus burmiticus suggest specialization for cryptic camouflage on tree bark. Mesozoic, 1(2): 125–131.
Arce S.*, Haug C., Muller P., Haug J., Fu Y. (2024) Oldest record of a larva of long-legged velvet mite (Erythraeoidea) parasitising an immature planthopper. Palaeoentomology, 7(4): 461–464.
Haug J., Fu Y., Haug J., Müller P., Haug G., Haug C. (2024) Quantitative morphology of fossil adephagan beetle larvae including a first record from the Jehol biota reveals no major diversity losses over time. Zootaxa, 5562(1): 76–93.
Huang D., Fu Y., Cai C. (2024). Fossil insects from the Ordos Basin. Journal of Insect Biodiversity, 60(1): 4–8.
Zhang Y., Gao H., Huang R., Su Y., Fu Y., Cai C., Huang D.* (2024) New zircon U-Pb age of the top Duoni Formation, Basu County: constraints on the collision between Qiangtang and Lhasa blocks in Eastern Tibet. Mesozoic, 1(3): 264–275.
Liu X., Jiang H.*, Chen J., Fu Y., Boderau M., Bojarski B., Bruthansova J., Nyunt T., Szwedo J. (2024) Investigation of Cretodorus (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Mimarachnidae) based on new adult and nymph fossils from mid-Cretaceous Myanmar amber. Mesozoic, 1(3): 235–254.

2023
Fu Y.*, Huang D. (2023) New Triassic Hylicellidae from northern China (Hemiptera, Cicadomorpha). Zootaxa 5396 (1): 10–15.
Fu Y.*, Xu M., Gao J., Huang D.* (2023) The Archijassidae from the Jurassic of China (Hemiptera, Cicadomorpha, Membracoidea) and its palaeoecological significance. Historical Biology, 36(10): 2233–2238.
Huang D., Lian X., Fu Y., Nel, A.* (2023) The first Chinese representative of the Cenozoic hawker dragonfly Oligaeschna (Odonata: Aeshnidae) from the Eocene of North Tibet. Historical Biology, 35(6): 997–1001.

2022
Fu Y., Cai C., Chen P., Huang D.* (2022): The earliest fossil evidence of brood care in insects. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 289: 20220447. (NI)
Fu Y., Huang D.* (2022): The first Archijassidae from the late Triassic of China (Hemiptera, Cicadomorpha, Membracoidea). Palaeoentomology, 5(6): 599–605.
Fu Y., Huang D.* (2022): The first Maguviopseidea (Hemiptera: Cicadomorpha: Prosboloidea) from the Triassic of China. Palaeoentomology, 5(1): 76–80.
Fu Y., Gao J., Huang D.* (2022): Revision of the genus Sinogranulus (Hemiptera, Granulidae) with description of a new species from the Middle Triassic of China. Palaeoentomology, 5(1): 81–89.
Tihelka E., Li L., Fu Y., Su Y., Huang D., Cai C.* (2022): Reply to: Pelretes vivificus was a pollinator of Cretaceous angiosperms. Nature Plants, 8: 41–44. (NI)
Huang D., Fu Y., Lian X., Nel, A.* (2022): The first Chinese Protohymenidae (Palaeoptera: Megasecoptera). Historical Biology, 34(3): 458–461.
Huang D., Hakim M., Fu Y., Nel, A.* (2022): A new sternorrhynchan genus and species from the Triassic of China probably relate to protopsyllidioid (Insecta, Hemiptera). Insects, 13: 592.
Wang Y., Nel, A., Fu Y., Su Y., Cai C., Liu Y., Gao J., Huang D.* (2022): New insect fossils discovered from the Lower Jurassic Sangonghe Formation at the Turpan Basin, Xinjiang, NW China. Palaeoentomology, 5(2): 183–194.
Gao H., Xu G., Fu Y., Cai C., Tang Z., Zheng S., Zhao X., Gao J., Huang D.* (2022): Age constraints on the fossil fishes (Mesoclupea-Paraclupea assemblage) from the Lower Cretaceous of Zhejiang Province, South China. Cretaceous Research, 138: 105263.
Huang D., Lian X., Liu Q., Fu Y., Nel, A.* (2022): A new calopterygid damselfly (Odonata, Zygoptera) from the Oligocene Ningming Basin, Guangxi, South China. Palaeoentomology, 5(2): 113–119.
Huang D., Fu Y., Lian X., Gao J., Nel, A.* (2022): The oldest malachite damselfly (Odonata: Synlestidae) from the Lower Cretaceous of China. Cretaceous Research, 129: 105023.

2021
Fu Y., Huang D.* (2021): A new fossil cercopoid from the middle Jurassic Ordos and Jiyuan basins, northern China (Hemiptera, Cicadomorpha). Historical Biology, 33(10): 2025–2030.
Fu Y., Huang D.* (2021): New data on Jurassic Procercopidae (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea) from northeastern China. Geological Journal, 56: 1291–1298.
Fu Y., Azar D., Huang D.* (2021): The first Dysmorphoptilidae from the Middle Triassic of China (Hemiptera: Cicadomorpha: Prosbolomorpha). Historical Biology, 32(12): 3506–3512.
Fu Y., Huang D.* (2021): A new species of Sinoalidae from the topmost Late Jurassic Daohugou Bed (Hemiptera, Cicadomorpha). Palaeoentomology, 4(1): 34–38.
Fu Y., Szwedo J., Huang D.* (2021): A new sinoalid froghopper in mid-Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar (Hemiptera, Cicadomorpha, Sinoalidae). Cretaceous Research, 125: 104841.
Fu Y., Huang D.* (2021): New mimarachnids in mid-Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar (Hemiptera, Fulgoromorpha). Cretaceous Research, 119: 104682.
Fu Y., Li Y., Su Y., Cai C., Huang D.* (2021): Application of confocal laser scanning microscopy to the study of amber bioinclusions. Palaeoentomology, 4(3): 266–278.
Tihelka E., Li L., Fu Y., Su Y., Huang D., Cai C.* (2021): Angiosperm pollinivory in a Cretaceous beetle. Nature Plants, 7: 445–451. (NI)
Liu Q., Zeng G., Lian X., Fu Y., Cai C., Huang D.* (2021): A new amber outcrop from the Oligocene Nanning Basin of Guangxi, southern China. Palaeoentomology, 4(4): 326–330.
Hakim M., Azar D.*, Fu Y., Cai C., Huang D.* (2021): A new cormopsocid from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Psocodea: Trogiomorpha: Cormopsocidae). Palaeoentomology, 4(2): 178–185.

2020
Fu Y., Cai C., Huang D.* (2020): First Mesozoic procercopids in mid-Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea). Geological Magazine, 157: 506–512.
Fu Y., Azar D., Huang D.* (2020): A new species of the extinct family Minlagerrontidae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadomorpha) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Cretaceous Research, 107: 107240.
Fu Y., Huang D.* (2020): Jurocercopis grandis Wang & Zhang, 2009 from the Jiyuan Basin and Daohugou beds of northern China and its morphological revision (Hemiptera, Cicadomorpha, Cercopoidea). Palaeoentomology, 3(1): 87–95.
Fu Y., Cai C., Huang D.* (2020): A new palaeontinid (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadomorpha) from the Upper Jurassic Tiaojishan Formation of northeastern China and its biogeographic significance. Journal of Paleontology, 94(3): 513–520.
Fu Y., Huang D.* (2020): The enigmatic arthropod Duraznovis gallegoi from the Late Triassic of Argentina is a cicadomorphan head (Insecta: Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). Palaeoentomology, 3(3): 245–247.
Fu Y., Huang D.* (2020): New data on fossil mimarachnids (Hemiptera, Fulgoromorpha, Fulgoroidea) in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Palaeoentomology, 3(3): 317–331.
Fu Y., Huang D.* (2020): Revision of the genus Jiaotouia (Hemiptera, Cercopoidea) with description of a new species from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Cretaceous Research, 115: 104558.
Fu Y., Huang D.* (2020): Sinomorphoptila incompleta gen. et sp. nov., a new dysmorphoptilid from the Middle Permian of China (Hemiptera, Cicadomorpha, Prosbolomorpha). Palaeoentomology, 3(4): 361–365.
Huang D., Fu Y., Lian X., Nel, A.* (2020): Sinaspidoneura magnifica nov. gen., nov. sp., first Chinese Caloneurodea (Insecta: Archaeorthoptera). Geobios, 63: 33–37.
Huang D., Fu Y., Nel, A.* (2020): The first Chinese representative of the Jurassic damsel-dragonfly genus Hypsothemis (Odonata: Isophlebioidea: Campterophlebiidae). Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, 44: 99–103.
Cai C., Fu Y., Huang D.* (2020): A large artematopodid beetle (Coleoptera: Elateroidea: Artematopodidae) from the Early Cretaceous of China and its systematic position. Cretaceous Research, 105: 103986.

2019
Fu Y., Cai C., Huang D.* (2019): First hairy cicadas in mid-Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Tettigarctidae). Cretaceous Research, 93: 285–291.
Fu Y., Huang D.* (2019): New sinoalids (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cercopoidea) from Middle to Upper Jurassic strata at Daohugou, Inner Mongolia, China. Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, 43: 246–256.
Fu Y., Huang D.* (2019): A new species of Luanpingia (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea: Sinoalidae) from the Middle–Upper Jurassic Daohugou Bed. Palaeoentomology, 2(5): 441–445.
Fu Y., Szwedo J., Azar D., Huang D* (2019): A second species of Dachibangus (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Mimarachnidae) in mid-Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar. Cretaceous Research, 103: 104170.
Fu Y., Huang D.* (2019): New sinoalids in mid-Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cercopoidea). Cretaceous Research, 104: 104187.
Fu Y., Huang D.* (2019): A new sinoalid assemblage from the topmost Late Jurassic Daohugou Bed indicating the evolution and ecological significance of Juroala Chen & Wang, 2019 (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea) during more than one million years. Palaeoentomology, 2(4): 350–362.
Fu Y., Huang D.* (2019): New Early Cretaceous hylicellids (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadomorpha) from Southwest Beijing, China. Palaeoentomology, 2: 17–21.
Cai C.*, Clarke D., Yin Z., Fu Y., Huang D.* (2019): A specialized preycapture apparatus in mid-Cretaceous rove beetles. Current Biology, 29: R105–R119. (NI)
Huang D., Fu Y., Nel, A.* (2019): The first amber stenophlebiid damsel-dragonfly (Odonata, Epiproctophora, Stenophlebiidae) from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar. Cretaceous Research, 94: 40–44.
Huang D., Fu Y., Nel A.* (2019): A possible true Mesozoic Gomphidae s. str. from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Odonata: Anisoptera). Cretaceous Research, 95: 341–345.
Huang D.*, Gao J., Dong C., Su Y., Fu Y., Li X., Liu Y., Cai C. (2019): Late Triassic fossil insects from the Laohugou Formation of northern China (Qinhuangdao, Hebei Province). Palaeoentomology, 2(2): 183–191.
Huang D.*, Su Y., Fu Y., Gao J., Liu Y., Cai C. (2019): A new Early Jurassic insect outcrop in Xinjiang, northwestern China and its stratigraphic significance. Palaeoentomology, 2(5): 430–435.

2018
Fu Y., Cai C., Huang D.*. (2018): A new fossil sinoalid species from the Middle Jurassic Daohugou beds (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cercopoidea). Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, 42: 94–100.
Fu Y., Huang D.* (2018): New fossil genus and species of Sinoalidae (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea) from the Middle to Upper Jurassic deposits in northeastern China. European Journal of Entomology, 115: 127–133.
Fu Y., Huang D.*, Engel M. (2018): A new species of the extinct family Procercopidae (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea) from the Jurassic of northeastern China. Palaeoentomology, 1(1): 51–57.
Huang D.*, Fu Y., Gao J., Nel, A.* (2018): A new damsel-dragonfly of the small family Selenothemistidae from the earliest Late Jurassic of China (Odonata: Isophlebioptera). Palaeoentomology, 1(1): 37–41.
Huang D.*, Cai C., Fu Y., Su Y. (2018): The Middle–Late Jurassic Yanliao entomofauna. Palaeoentomology, 1(1): 3–31.
Mao Y., Liang K., Su Y., Li J., Rao X., Zhang H., Xia F., Fu Y., Cai C., Huang D.* (2018): Various amberground marine animals on Burmese amber with discussions on its age. Palaeoentomology, 1(1): 91–103.